Source: The Register
ESET’s data reveals that cyber incidents against British factories are now baseline operational risk rather than anomalies, with attackers targeting production lines and supply chains for immediate economic damage rather than data theft. The shift from IT breaches to OT (operational technology) attacks means manufacturers face concrete losses—halted production, missed deliveries, customer penalties—that directly crater quarterly results, creating pressure to either invest heavily in segmented factory networks or absorb rising insurance costs as a cost of doing business. Manufacturing lobby groups across Europe and North America now treat cyber resilience as industrial policy, not IT hygiene.